Developing core features, working with database migrations — Part one can be found here: Learning new tech stack by developing a useful application — Part 1: Intro Part two can be found here: Learning new tech stack by developing a useful application — Part 2: Setting up So, since NestJS is new for me, not Angular, I am…

Setting up frontend and backend, creating a skeleton, and working on security — Part one can be found here: Learning new tech stack by developing a useful application — Part 1: Intro This will not be a step-by-step guide, just my thoughts about the whole process of learning new frameworks and my experience while developing an application. Ok, so after a bit of…

My story up to this point, why I decided to learn new frameworks, and what am I a going to build — Part two can be found here: Learning new tech stack by developing a useful application — Part 2: Setting up I’ve been working as a software engineer for the past 7.5 years. I started working in Java and Spring framework, then added a bit of AngularJS and worked as a…

While I was developing a simple online shop for a website in Laravel, there was a simple requirement Admin needs to create product with a single picture That picture needs to be displayed in online shop Picture can be changed when Admin edits product Other important things that you need…

I had requirement to make microservice which only job (for now) will be to extract screenshot from one or more videos at every second of video. While other microservices which are part of system are not written in GoLang, I decided to try it for this particular job. Important info…

For development purposes I needed Kafka running locally on my windows machine and I spend hours searching for easiest way to this. Easiest way is to run it using docker but after spending couple of hours to find simplest docker-compose file to start just zookeper and kafka and some simple graphical interface I could not find any which have everything I need. So if you also need something like me, Zookeper, Kafka and KafDrop (Graphical interface) feel free to use file from bellow, just save it as docker-compose.yml and run it using docker-compose-up

Short tutorial how to configure Spring Cloud Config Server to work on HTTPS and configure some microservice to read from it over HTTPS, also since I am using Eureka I’ve included that part of configuration also. First of all, this is done locally so for development purposes we have to…

In Java 7 diamond operator was introduced so instead of writing all of this: Map<String, List<String>> a = new HashMap<String, List<String>>(); We can write this: Map<String, List<String>> a = new HashMap<>(); So now we have a cleaner and shorter way to declare new map/list/set and so on. …

Having the ability to add some function to basically any class can be really helpful in a lot of situations. Languages like C# or Gosu have this ability from long time ago and now you can use this on JVM with Kotlin. Let’s demonstrate this on a really simple example…